Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-31
MUCH NEEDED In TOWN.

A Home Where Aged Ladies Gam
spend Their Declining Years Peace
fully and Happily.
Gone of the most needed institutions that
this city requires" said ladies connected with
the management of the Home for the Friend
less, sis home where aged ladies reduced
to penury may pass their last days and years
peacefully and comfortably. There Is large
and growing field of this character which
commends itself strongly and powerfully to
the charitable and benevolent. Our churches,
such as have not already church home for
aged women, feel this need, and it is one
realized by great many in this city who
have considered the subject or who have had
the subject wildly impressed upon them by
some particular case which appealed most
strongly to their sympathies.
''It is apparent to all, especially our older
people, that house for destitute aged ladies
would be exceedingly useful and
meet a want that exists here
in this city and has long
been felt. How many there are in the city
of aged ladies to whom such home would
be an unspeakable blessing. How many q
dear old soul there is in our city whose life
has been spent in the sunshine of cheerful,
comfortable home amid congenial surround
the Injuries of wealth, but who, owing to ad ::
versity, have in their declining years been
brought to taste the bitter cup of poverty
and to find themselves almost alone in the
wide, wide world, their children dead, the
companions of their youth dead or gone
and few left of their kith and
kin, and those surrounded by cares
and unable to suitably provide
for them. How often is the truth brought
home wildly to us all, from observation of
the woes of others that there is no one 80
lonely in the world as an old person whom
the storms and buffetings of time have left
almost friendless and without funds Espec-
tally severe is it for old ladies, who have
known better days, who have had genial and
refined associations, to be compelled in their
declining years to take shelter under the
roof OF an almshouse among paupers, some
of whom are dissolute and depraved. It is
to remedy this that the Home for the
Friendless ladies are moving in the direc-
ton of securing funds to
erect an addition to the
institution. Through the liberality of a
philanthropic lady of New Haven the ladies
have been able to put aside $500 as the
foundation for building fund for this pur-
pose There is nothing to hinder the erection
OF the institution except the lack of money.
The sum of s., 900 is all that is required.
With this the addition can be built and
rooms provided which will be used to accom-
modate old ladies of the class described We
have already applications enough and of
most deserving character to nearly fill the
additions. There are but two old ladies'
homes in this city, the Center church
home and the Trinity church home. We
have frequently applications from the other
churches relative to cases of the kind in
question, and had we an established place for
old ladies it would be filed at once, and with
cases most strongly appealing to our sympa-
thies and heart, and for most of these from
50 to 81 per week would gladly be paid. Our
home has already, with its limited accommo-
dations, furnished a comfortable home for
several aged ladies. We have plenty of land
connected with our home for an addition
twice as large as that we ask for. The home
for old ladies would be self-supporting and
would be rendered home indeed as far as
the best effort and oversight nonld mako IL